Elections Under Threat Over Corruption, Buhari Says

Elections Under Threat Over Corruption, Buhari Says

Just yesterday the Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has complained the coming election in Nigeria is under threat. The question now is, who is putting the election under threat?

Is this a folly game to win the shallow mind who still think President Buhari has the will power to fight corruption? Or improve the poverty growth in Nigeria? When those who was formerly accused as thieves of Nigeria public funds were actually forgive by joining APC.

The question goes on and on… but one thing I am sure is that Nigeria look forward to competent leadership during the forth coming presidential election.

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While President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday said the forthcoming general elections in the country were being threatened by corruption. As the presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on Saturday, president Buhari expressed this fear in an article titled, “Corruption threatens Nigeria – and its election.”

“As president, I have tried to judiciously exercise the trust vested in me to combat the problems of corruption, insecurity and an inequitable economy. All are important. But amongst them, one stands above the others as both a cause and aggravator of the rest. It is, of course, corruption.

“A policy programme that does not have fighting corruption at its core is destined to fail. The battle against graft must be the base on which we secure the country, build our economy, provide decent infrastructure and educate the next generation.

“This is the challenge of our generation: the variable on which our success as a nation shall be determined. But the vested interests at play can make this fight difficult. By way of their looting, the corrupt have powerful resources at their disposal. And they will use them. For when you fight corruption, you can be sure it will fight back.

“It even threatens to undermine February’s poll and – by extension – our democracy. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has raised concerns over laundered money being funnelled into vote buying. This is the problem of corruption writ large. It illustrates how it lurks in all and every crevice of public life, manipulating due process in pursuit of self-preservation and perpetuation; protecting personal political and economic interests at the expense of the common good,” the president said.

Buhari said those who have criticised his administration’s anti-corruption drive are those who opposed its mission.

“And though their lawyers may craft expensive alibis, they cannot escape that which binds them together: a raft of documents and barely legal (some clearly illegal) mechanisms – whether that be the Panama Papers, US Congress reports, shell companies or offshore bank accounts.

“Corruption corrodes the trust on which the idea of community is founded, because one rule for the few and another for everyone else is unacceptable to anyone working honestly.

“But as we have intensified our war on corruption, so we have found that corruption innovates to resist the law. This is not the sole domain of those Nigerians, but the international corruption industry: the unsavoury fellow-traveller of globalisation.

“Once the enablers are let in – as they have been in the past – the greed of those they collude with grows. We have closed the door on them, but unfortunately there still remain individuals who are willing to open windows,” he said.

The president, who is seeking a second term, said even though concrete progress had been made, there was still much to do.

“We have repatriated hundreds of millions of dollars stowed away in foreign banks. These funds have been transparently deployed on infrastructural projects and used to directly empower the poorest in society. More is still to come from our international partners in France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Yet the hundreds of billions sifted out of the country for the best part of this century promise more.

“We have secured high profile convictions, but greater cases remain. Lawyers table endless objections to obstruct court proceedings, whilst their clients hope it lasts until a ‘friendly’ president is voted into office. We must continue to tighten the legal framework and ensure the authorities have the investigative powers at their disposal to secure sentences. Only then will we begin to neutralise the advantages the corrupt have,” he said.

According to him, the country has saved about $550m from the removal of ghost workers from government payroll.

Admit your failure, PDP tells president

Responding to the president’s statement, the opposition PDP said if there is any person whose activities of corruption have become a threat to the coming election, “it is President Muhammadu Buhari, who is financing his campaign with looted funds, while surrounding himself with politicians indicted for corruption.”

The party said on its twitter handle last night that it had out of respect for the Office of the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria severally refrained from calling out President Buhari on his various indictments for corruption even during his era as a military ruler.

“A clear reading of Mr. President’s statement today shows that he is not yet aware that Nigerians have decoded his mastery of concealments of corruption in his Presidency and are no longer interested in his failed self-acclaimed fight against corruption.

“President Muhammadu Buhari presides over the most corrupt and incompetent administration in the history of our nation, for which Nigerians are very eager to go to the polls on Saturday to vote him out of office.

“Is it not strange therefore that President Muhammadu Buhari who wants Nigerians to perceive his administration as fighting corruption, will cast a net into the ocean and bring out only corrupt people to run his campaign?

“Rather than seeking for sympathy votes, President Muhammadu Buhari should simply admit his failure in governance and allow Nigerians to build their future by getting our nation working again under the leadership of Atiku Abubakar.”